Sorry for disappearing, I was up for a couple of days trying to get this in before the weeks end. Let me try to get caught up on all the questions/comments.
[citation][nom]soccerdocks[/nom]Until another browser beats Chrome in the speed/performance benchmarks I'm sticking with it.[/citation]
Good catch. Even though Firefox 7 is overall a stronger browser (by a hair) when looking at everything we're testing, it's Chrome 14 that holds the edge in pure speed trials.
[citation][nom]iam2thecrowe[/nom]im sticking with IE, its perfectly fast enough and stable and why should I have to install another browser when it works perfectly fine?[/citation]
First off, I apologize if your comment was sarcastic. You don't have to change, but from my personal experience I don't know how people deal with all those prompts. To me, using IE is like a Vista (pre-SP1) UAC experience all over again, but in your Web browser.
[citation][nom]compton[/nom]I used opera for a while, but Netflix streaming doesn't work with it, nor do many other sites I use.[/citation]
I just reactivated my Netflix account to check on this. I'm using it right now just fine - in a virtual machine no less.
[citation][nom]frostmachine[/nom]I noticed firefox will use progressively more memory. Even if it's just refreshing the same pages. I use firefox, opera n chrome, keeping them open 24hr/day. It can go from intial 100mb to over 500mb. I don't see this in the other browsers.[/citation]
Are your observations based on older versions of Firefox? The long-awaited memory fixes have finally arrived in version 7.
[citation][nom]pseudoscion[/nom]The Encog Silverlight result is wrong. In the graph IE9 comes third with Firefox fourth, but your conclusions are,Firefox 7 shows significant improvement over version 6, moving up to third place. As a result, IE9 drops to fourth.[/citation]
Doh! Working on fixing that now. It should read: Firefox 7 shows a significant performance drop from version 6, moving down to fourth place. As a result, IE9 moves up to third. I think I was looking at the WBGP6 and WBGP7 charts backwards when writing that part. Doh!